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It works very well in Feedly. Just plug the links that LadyGeek provided into Feedly and them to your feeds.

I've been using the Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF) feeds in Feedly since they were introduced without any issues. I've noticed that Feedly collects the new feed information about every 20 minutes or so for FWF. From feedly. feed your mind.

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White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

Trice you've managed to choose one of two of the three feeds, or even all three, on Feedly?

Feedly shows me every single post which is why I had originally stopped following BH via Feedly.

1) Invest you must 2) Time is your friend 3) Impulse is your enemy 4) Basic arithmetic works 5) Stick to simplicity 6) Stay the course. (Plagiarized, but worth stealing)

White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

I think a nice notification system into your email box would probably be a better choice than a feed. Some of the forums I'm on send you an email when threads you've visited are updated. I'm trying to implement a feature on mine that basically sends you a notice every day, week, or month (your choice) with the list of thread titles started in the last day/week/month.

The Bogleheads forum is so active though, it's basically impossible to read everything. I can't think of any better way than just to peruse the titles on the site itself.

White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

Trice you've managed to choose one of two of the three feeds, or even all three, on Feedly?

Feedly shows me every single post which is why I had originally stopped following BH via Feedly.

I had also originally tried to follow BH via Feedly (actually I probably tried back when Google Reader was still a thing) and the feed that includes every single post was just too much. I also tried to create something myself via Yahoo Pipes (also now defunct), to no avail.

So far I haven't had much time to play with these new feeds other than plugging on or two of them into Feedly. I will keep an eye on them and report back.

White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

I think a nice notification system into your email box would probably be a better choice than a feed. Some of the forums I'm on send you an email when threads you've visited are updated. I'm trying to implement a feature on mine that basically sends you a notice every day, week, or month (your choice) with the list of thread titles started in the last day/week/month.

The Bogleheads forum is so active though, it's basically impossible to read everything. I can't think of any better way than just to peruse the titles on the site itself.

I agree with your point on the notification system, but that only works for threads you've visited and wish to follow. For me, RSS is the first step - I can see each new thread then decide whether or not to comment and/or follow and/or get future notifications.

I enjoy your blog, btw. I'm not a white coat myself but there's lots of good content there. Maybe one of these days I'll comment on something!

White Coat Investor wrote:I'm curious to see how useful participants find this feature. While I think feeds are a great way to follow blogs, I'm not convinced it is the best way to follow a forum.

What other way is there to follow a forum, outside of visiting periodically and scouring every separate forum to see what you've missed? With RSS feeds you can see new topics or posts and click through as you wish.

For me, I've tried hard over the years to minimize the places I go for info, mostly as a time-saver. Now it's basically Gmail, Twitter, and Feedly (rarely Facebook though I know that's popular for many). Those are my jumping-off points for the hundreds of sites I'll visit over the course of a week. If a site doesn't work with those I probably won't visit much.

Trice you've managed to choose one of two of the three feeds, or even all three, on Feedly?

Feedly shows me every single post which is why I had originally stopped following BH via Feedly.

I had also originally tried to follow BH via Feedly (actually I probably tried back when Google Reader was still a thing) and the feed that includes every single post was just too much. I also tried to create something myself via Yahoo Pipes (also now defunct), to no avail.

So far I haven't had much time to play with these new feeds other than plugging on or two of them into Feedly. I will keep an eye on them and report back.

Yup, would be great if someone can outline how to get Feedly to not show every single BH post.

1) Invest you must 2) Time is your friend 3) Impulse is your enemy 4) Basic arithmetic works 5) Stick to simplicity 6) Stay the course. (Plagiarized, but worth stealing)

I apologize, I wasn't clear in that earlier post. Yes, there was an RSS feed available but it was every single unread post. It's been awhile since I subscribed to that but I recall hundreds of items in my feed each day - way too many to go through. I and others asked if there were other feed options that could be added to reduce the flow of the firehose and graciously they were able to do it.

airahcaz wrote:Yup, would be great if someone can outline how to get Feedly to not show every single BH post.

airachcaz, if I'm understanding this correctly, I think feed #2 (topics feed - shows the first posts of the 15 most recent topics in all forums) is probably what you're looking for. I'm guessing this will be the most useful one for me, because then I can see each new topic once but should not see each individual follow-up post within those topics. If I'm interested, I can click through and subscribe to the topic through BH, from which I can get notifications of future activity via email.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that feed #1 (post feed - shows the 10 most recent posts from all topics in all forums) and feed #3 (active topics feed - shows the 15 last posts, not older than 7 days, from all forums) will be the same in practical terms since they both appear to be returning every new post from all forums.

I have plugged all 3 of the feeds from LadyGeek's original post, as well as a feed dedicated to only one forum, into my Feedly and will watch them in days to come.

Yay! Good job LadyGeek. I work on cross-forum data extraction solutions, and one the major frustrations with phpBB communities is that, unlike vBulletin, the phpBB external data provider functionality is turned off by default. You can always duct-tape a solution together, but it's so much easier when the forum is exposing its own feed.

airahcaz wrote:Yup, would be great if someone can outline how to get Feedly to not show every single BH post.

airachcaz, if I'm understanding this correctly, I think feed #2 (topics feed - shows the first posts of the 15 most recent topics in all forums) is probably what you're looking for. I'm guessing this will be the most useful one for me, because then I can see each new topic once but should not see each individual follow-up post within those topics. If I'm interested, I can click through and subscribe to the topic through BH, from which I can get notifications of future activity via email.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that feed #1 (post feed - shows the 10 most recent posts from all topics in all forums) and feed #3 (active topics feed - shows the 15 last posts, not older than 7 days, from all forums) will be the same in practical terms since they both appear to be returning every new post from all forums.

I have plugged all 3 of the feeds from LadyGeek's original post, as well as a feed dedicated to only one forum, into my Feedly and will watch them in days to come.

Again, thanks to LadyGeek et al for making this possible.

Will wait for your tests

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airahcaz - Do you have the Firefox browser? It supports the feeds directly as part of its "Live bookmarks" feature. If you want to get a sense of what the feed should look like, just click on the feed links and view them in Firefox.

This doesn't answer your question, but I wanted to at least show you what to expect.

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LadyGeek wrote:airahcaz - Do you have the Firefox browser? It supports the feeds directly as part of its "Live bookmarks" feature. If you want to get a sense of what the feed should look like, just click on the feed links and view them in Firefox.

This doesn't answer your question, but I wanted to at least show you what to expect.

Thanks but I only us the Feedly app on my iPhone for all feeds.

1) Invest you must 2) Time is your friend 3) Impulse is your enemy 4) Basic arithmetic works 5) Stick to simplicity 6) Stay the course. (Plagiarized, but worth stealing)

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If anyone has created a custom feed URL they'd like share here, feel free. Surround the URL with the "Code" tag so it can be easily copy-n-pasted (as I've done in the first post).

To some, the glass is half full. To others, the glass is half empty. To an engineer, it's twice the size it needs to be.

So I wanted to follow up after earlier this week I said I would track a few of these RSS feeds over a few days. My experiment didn't go so great ha ha, I quickly found myself ignoring the RSS feeds that returned too many results.

But here's what I can tell you. All along I've wanted a feed that returns the first post of each new topic - one time, and never again. Now that it's been added, it works great. I haven't counted but I would estimate it returns 60-80 results per day - which for me is enough to scan and engage with without being overwhelming.

Other feeds that return every single post or posts from active topics return significantly more results - perhaps a couple hundred or more per day - and obviously multiple posts from the same topic. Obviously this number is smaller if you're only tracking one forum rather than the entire board, but you get the idea. If you're very engaged with the board, that might be the solution for you.

Trice wrote:
But here's what I can tell you. All along I've wanted a feed that returns the first post of each new topic - one time, and never again. Now that it's been added, it works great. I haven't counted but I would estimate it returns 60-80 results per day - which for me is enough to scan and engage with without being overwhelming.

So 60-80 is still a bit much, but what were the exact steps to get it to just the first new post of a new thread?

1) Invest you must 2) Time is your friend 3) Impulse is your enemy 4) Basic arithmetic works 5) Stick to simplicity 6) Stay the course. (Plagiarized, but worth stealing)

Trice wrote:
But here's what I can tell you. All along I've wanted a feed that returns the first post of each new topic - one time, and never again. Now that it's been added, it works great. I haven't counted but I would estimate it returns 60-80 results per day - which for me is enough to scan and engage with without being overwhelming.

So 60-80 is still a bit much, but what were the exact steps to get it to just the first new post of a new thread?

I know you said you only use Feedly on your phone but I find it too cumbersome to add specific feeds via phone. But I just tested this (on an Android, I assume Feedly on iPhone is comparable) and it worked.

I'm not exactly sure what you will see then...I assume you'll see an option about adding it to your feeds, what folder you want it in, etc. For me, I already subscribe to that feed, so Feedly recognizes that and sends me to the feed's latest results.

The rss command is a conky command so the script may be optional. type=atom just
tells conky it's an atom I think. My thought is your server has to be "curl" and "php"
enabled which it almost has to be. So, my computer is missing a needed curl or php
program as it is a rather small operating system. There are dozens of php programs so
it will take awhile to satisfy my curiousity as I don't want to install megabytes of programs
when I'd only need a few K's. I'll ask on the Debian forum eventually. I have had conky
display feeds like this before. It was OK.

Download and parse RSS feeds. The interval may be a floating point value greater than 0, otherwise defaults to 15 minutes. Action may be one of the following: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num par) and item_titles (when using this action and spaces_in_front is given conky places that many spaces in front of each item). This object is threaded, and once a thread is created it can't be explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for each URI specified. You can use any protocol that Curl supports.

From a quick Google search, Conky does not reliably support atom feeds. Several people have made custom Python parsers to work around the issue.

Mudpuppy wrote:From a quick Google search, Conky does not reliably support atom feeds. Several people have made custom Python parsers to work around the issue.

I found some old scripts on my HD where the atom feed appears but
they need alot of SED or Awk revising to get rid of the extra characters.
Lot's of time for me to do that. They may work in Conky. If we only
had a RSS2 feed I have one script in particular that gets the feed and
folds it, etc..

I think you have to use xft for that in the config file. Use Bogle-RSS
for the config and it should appear correctly. Mine does and it's very
small config-wise. The text-buffer and a few other adjustments are in
the Bogle-RSS config file.

$conky -c (path to)Bogle-RSS - which also uses $HOME/.conky

edit : for the window inside of Bogle-RSS need this -

own_window yes
own_window_type conky
own_window_title Boglehead RSS

otherwise it appears on the desktop screen, I don't have wallpaper
so I have it on the screen only. Need to config for wallpaper I think.

I already have xft in the config file. Knowing very well that phpBB enforces the UTF-8 character set , I debugged my config file.

I had "override_utf8_locale no" as the last line in the configuration area (top of file). The file is interpreted, so it made sense that xft should have the UTF-8 locale setting in place before it's used. I enabled the UTF-8 locale and placed it before xft. That did the trick.

I'm regularly browsing the forum on a mobile device. I'd suggest that it's not really a feed issue. When you login to the forum on your mobile device, click the "Remember me" box and you'll stayed logged in on the mobile device. Then if you click on a Bogleheads feed item that takes you to the forum you are already logged in.

The Bogleheads feeds are just syndicated lists of topics and posts that RSS aggregators such as Feedly collect and manage on behalf of all the readers of that feed, they are not specific to you. To the best of my knowledge Feedly just manages the information about what's new and what you've already read in your feeds. When you click on a link in a feed, it just passes you along to the website. Thus the above suggestion to use the "Remember me" checkbox.

Hope that helps as it's the way I've been doing it here and on other phpBB forums that provide feeds that I read via Feedly on my i<devices>.

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I'm using iOS on my i<devices>. From my experience, when I switch between Feedly on iOS and on a desktop, it seamlessly manages my feeds and what I've got still unread and saved between devices.

When I click a BH link on Feedly in iOS, it takes me to the forum (in Safari) and since I've got "Remember me" checked, I'm logged into the forum and can post a reply or any other action that requires me to be logged in.

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Mine is working fine. Was wondering how the new RSS would work.
Add a print command to a new line (the last line) of the new .py script
and it will skip a line between each line printout. Just type in print
and save.